Weekly Gardening Outlook

This will be a continuing series where we look ahead at the coming week in gardening for the Northwest Arkansas area.

Late season tomato plants

It's late in the season and all the garden plants are showing their age.  Gone are the lush, blemish free leaves of early summer.  Nonetheless, the tomato plants keep plugging along, producing fat red fruits for us.  

Planting the fall salad garden:

Prepared location for lettuce planting

With about 5 weeks left until the first frost of the year and rain predicted for the next three days, it was a perfect time to rough up some dirt and spread some seeds.  Knowing that temperatures are going to continue to drop and the sun is moving lower into the southern sky, we chose the southern-most, sunniest locations to plant in.  All it took was a light raking of the soil surface, scattering seed by hand, followed by another light raking of the soil surface.  The soil needs to remain damp until the seeds emerge (about 7 days).

Rocky Top lettuce mix

Pink Beauty radishes

Free water.

Weather outlook:

Huzzah!

-Upper 70's to mid 80s, with a significant chance of rain throughout the week!!!

-Ten day forecast

What's being harvested:
-Peppers

-Chard 

-Tomatoes
-Celeriac leaves, basil, mint, and other herbs

-Apples